I APOLOGIZE FOR LATE CHAPTER! I had a friend in town from New York for the entire month of July so I was not allowed on my computer much. I have all the chapters written on paper so now I just have to type them up and wait for my two proof readers to read them. My two proof readers were busy this past two weeks (one of them had to get ready for her Texas vacation and they finally got around to reading the chapter last night. I do apologize hopefully Chapter 15 will be different.
ONLY 2 MORE CHAPTERS LEFT IN THIS BOOK THEN IT IS ONTO BOOK 2!
Overall I hope everyone enjoys this Chapter. My one proof reader spotted many mistakes with it and I can only hope I fixed them all. I would like everyone's opinions and honesty in the reviews (for people who do review).
ENJOY!!
Key
Of
Eternal
Darkness
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Book One:
The Weapons of Osiris
Chapter Fourteen:
Rescuing Ketta
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The two apprentices step out of the darkness and into the bright light. The harsh glare causes them to put an arm over their eyes. After a few moments, Sphinx and Isis look around at their surroundings.
The area before them is circular with a stone structure in the middle. Three colored energy beams radiate from different locations meeting in the center to create a force field around the small stone structure and a captured Ketta.
"What is this place?" Isis asks mainly to herself but tries to direct it to her partner.
"You're asking the wrong demi-god." Sphinx replies while looking around in wonder.
"Help! Over here!" A feminine voice shouts.
Quickly glancing around the small area, the two apprentices spot a female cat up ahead waving at them. The two of them run over to the prisoner and stop before the force field.
"Are you okay?" Isis asks worriedly.
Ketta nods, "I am. May I ask who you two are?"
"Sphinx --"
"-- Isis --"
"-- We were asked to rescue you by your husband." Sphinx finishes as he crosses his arms.
"Oh, he never really liked danger or adventure. Curse his coward-ness." Ketta says, mumbling her last line.
Isis looks at her partner with a faint smirk as Sphinx returns her gaze. They look back at Ketta as she resumes her speaking.
"Please, you must find a way to deactivate this force field! I'm sure those three colored beams are powering the force field." She says while the three of them look at the Blue, Yellow and Magenta beams coming from the West, North and East. "If you could find a way to deactivate them, I might be able to escape and return to my husband. He must be worried."
"Oh he's worried alright." Isis replies looking back at the Heliopolis civilian.
"Where do we start?" Sphinx asks uncrossing his arms and facing his partner.
"We should split up." The demi-cat replies, eyeing the yellow beam.
"I'll take the Magenta beam."
"I'll take the Yellow beam."
"Then we'll meet back here and take down the blue beam together." The two apprentices say in unison while turning to face each other.
"Glad we're on the same page for once." Isis says with a faint smirk.
"Yeah for once." The demi-god mumbles as he turns his attention back to Ketta. "We'll get you out of here as fast as we can."
"Please hurry." Ketta replies frightfully as she looks around.
Sphinx and Isis take off in different directions hoping to free Ketta before something bad happens. Once across the small pool of lava, the apprentices enter another area where a challenge awaits them both.
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Sphinx enters a new circular area and glances around to see ledges and stones. Accidentally stepping on a pad in front of him, Sphinx sees the cage ahead of him lower to reveal three colored stones. He steps off of the pad and walks towards the stones, only to have the cage appear around them once more.
The demi-god stares at the ground around him to see the small pad that he had previously stepped upon. Putting a foot on the pad, the cage lowers to reveal the three different stones. Slightly raising his foot off the pad, the cage appears once more as the apprentice heavily sighs.
"This is Isis's specialty … not mine." Sphinx utters as he tries to figure out the challenge ahead of him.
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Isis enters another circular area with three electric rods in the middle of the area. A brown tree, which stands still towards the right side of the area, slowly lowers its branches into the ground. This goes unnoticed by Isis as her eyes follow the yellow beam to a stone obelisk on the other side of the area. Walking across the ground, she walks up to the broken bridge and stops before going off the edge.
"Damn." She mumbles looking at the source of the yellow beam.
Sighing, the female apprentice turns around only to come face to face with a tree branch.
"AH!" Isis screams, completely startled as many tree branches pop out of the ground and start attacking her. "Bad day! Bad day! Bad day!" She continues running back to the entrance while branches still shoot out of the ground and attack her.
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Ralix walks around Abydos with Amsu and Amsi musing over possible wedding plans. So far, the trio has been around the city eight times and still they haven't decided on a wedding place.
"I'm telling you the Abydos Plaza --" Amsi begins but gets cut off by Amsu.
"-- No the balcony will --" Amsu cuts in but gets interrupted by Ralix.
"-- Neither place will work." Ralix finishes thinking of all possible places.
"Ralix?" Amsu and Amsi ask in unison.
"Chances are that Sphinx guy will be there and he'll try to crash the wedding. Make sure security is tight. We can't afford anyone crashing this wedding." Ralix replies when a dark portal opens up underneath the balcony in the Plaza.
The three of them turn their heads towards the portal as a female demi-falcon steps out with a look of anger.
"What are you doing here?" Amsu asks a bit puzzled.
"Set put me on wedding duty with three imbeciles." Femi growls clearly displeased with her master's suggestion.
"Well, I'm sorry if it inconveniences you." Ralix replies with a hint of anger.
"None of us are pleased with this assignment." Amsi chimes in.
"Let's just get this over with before Amsu no longer has a head." Femi answers.
"Aww come on Love, I'm not that bad." Amsu says as he dares to call Femi by her name's meaning.
Femi walks up to Amsu, grabs him by the throat and hoists him slightly off the ground. "Keep it up and you'll be dead faster than you can say 'Death.'"
"Enough, let's quickly get this wedding planned and get these plans back to the Mayor." Ralix interrupts.
Femi sets Amsu back on the ground as the three of them nod in response.
"Maybe we should do a location last." Amsi says as the four of them resume their walk around the city.
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"Let's just hope Sphinx was able to solve his challenge." The apprentice continues as she runs back across the bridge.
Making her way back to the entrance, the demi-cat exits her area, jumps across the lava pool and walks over to Ketta and Sphinx. Her presence goes unnoticed by the both of them as she eavesdrops on their conversation.
"She's beautiful by the way." Ketta says leaning against the force field with her back to Isis.
"What?" Sphinx asks a bit caught off guard as he leans his shoulder against the force field with his back to his partner.
"That demi-cat, I can see why you like her so much."
"Uh I don't --"
"Don't deny it. I can tell by the way you two act around each other."
"Is it really that obvious?"
Ketta nods, "Clear as day. If you want I can help you."
"With --"
"Surprise!" Isis cuts in as she wraps her arms around Sphinx's neck.
The demi-god turns his head to face her, completely startled by her sudden appearance. "How long have you been there?"
"Just got here actually. Did you destroy the Magenta beam?" Isis asks with her arms still around her partner's neck.
"No, I came back here because I need your help."
"With?
"There's a boulder blocking my path and I can't destroy it."
With a sigh, the demi-cat lets go of Sphinx. "Lead the way."
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The sun is setting beyond the horizon turning the Abydosian sky a glowing red, yellow and orange color. Femi, Ralix, Amsu and Amsi are resting in the Abydos Plaza still trying to decide on a wedding place.
"Security?" Ralix asks Amsi.
"Check." Amsi replies putting a check mark next to the word 'Security.'
"Outfits?"
"Check."
"Invitations made?"
"Check."
"Reception?"
"Check."
"Priest?"
"Check."
"Sphinx's death?"
"Check."
"Wedding location?" Ralix continues but nothing responds to his question. He turns around to face Amsi, "I said, Wedding location?"
"We haven't picked a place yet." Amsi replies.
"This is absurd. It shouldn't take us this long to pick a damn place." Femi complains as she sits on the ground letting her feet rest from the all the walking.
"I still say the Abydos Plaza." Amsi adds in looking at everyone.
"No. We need the wedding ceremony to be in a place for us to easily kill Sphinx." Ralix replies in a whisper.
"Why do you want him dead?" Femi asks with a smirk.
"That way he'll be out of our way --"
"You mean out of your way."
"I despise him just as much as you despise Raziya."
"Don't mention her name around me." Femi replies in a low growl.
"Oh, seems like Ralix hit a nerve." Amsu cuts in.
"Just hold the wedding in the Plaza. The guards will carry Sphinx to the edge and throw him in the water." Femi says lowering her head.
"Fine, we'll go with the Abydos Plaza." Ralix answer in a sigh.
Amsi writes 'Abydos Plaza' next to 'Wedding Location' and puts a check mark next to it. "Check."
"We'll get these plans to the Mayor," Amsu says.
Ralix nods, "Meet up with me tomorrow."
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Ketta and Isis are having a nice conversation when both notice that the blue beam has been deactivated causing the force field to dissolve completely.
"Sphinx did it." Isis says with a smile.
"That I did." Sphinx replies walking up behind her.
"What happened to you?!"
"You were right. It involved fighting." Sphinx answers as he looks at his wounds. "The burn marks are from the Skeletal Worshippers and the slash marks are from a giant bull."
"Then let me take you two back to my house so I can look at your wounds. It is the least I can do in payment for rescuing me." Ketta says eyeing Sphinx's burns and slash marks.
"It was no problem at all." The apprentices answer in unison.
"While we are there, my husband can thank the two heroes who saved his beloved wife." Ketta says walking ahead of the demi-god and demi-cat back to South Beach.